Family tree Hulzebos » Anna Elizabeth Henderika van der Veen (1903-)

Birthday February 3, 1903

• The temperature on February 3, 1903 was between 1.3 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
  • October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1900 » Mabel Mercer, English-American singer († 1984)
• 1903 » Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier, pilot, and politician († 1973)
• 1904 » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster († 1934)
• 1905 » Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic († 1986)
• 1905 » Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic († 1990)
• 1906 » George Adamson, Indian-English author and activist († 1989)